Thursday, June 28, 2012

Trial of Animoto App

I have used Animoto online to create my end-of-the-year slideshows for my students. I have a free "educators account" that you can get at http://www.animoto.com/ . This is my first attempt using it on my ipad as an app. These are random picutres from my daughter's wedding. I just had a few of them on this ipad and threw them together with one of the templates provided in the app so this is just a sample. I used music off my ipad and then the app had a place to create a video to embed into the show. I grabbed a photo I had at hand and that is the video you see at the end of the slideshow. You can only shoot for 10 secs using that function of the app. I wonder if I had a longer video already created if it would import that into the slideshow? I will have to try that at a later date. You can share your creations via Facebook, Twitter, Email a link or text a link. You can also download the video to the ipad by saving it to your camera roll. I took me all of 4 minutes to do this. I know I will use this in the classroom this year. Please do not repost the video anywhere. Thank you.